Cronies
oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate
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Word Count
81,750 words, Guess
Page Count
327 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24745734M
- ISBN-139781586481889
- ISBN-101586481886
- OCLC Control Number53992869
- OCLC Control Numbercroniesoilbushes00bryc
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003070694
Classifications
- DDC976.4/063
- LCCF391.2 .B795 2004
Description
"No other state has a tighter hold on America's psyche, politics, and wallet than Texas. Two of the last three American presidents - and three of the last eight - have been Texans. Lyndon Johnson, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush all got the White House by exploiting a network of money and power that no other state can match. In this fascinating book, investigative journalist Robert Bryce explains how Texas' business has become America's business and how Texas' politics are now America's politics." "Through a narrative that moves from the days of the oil boom, through the rise and reign of LBJ, to the present, Cronies illuminates how Texas turned its vast energy resources into political power, and how a small group of Texas corporations, lawyers, and politicians have used that power to protect and defend their own economic interests."--BOOK JACKET.
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